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thatfatboyon We were not accepted into Google Summer of Code. So, we started our own

strange that such an old company would participate

thatfatboyon India's plan to let 1998 digital trade deal expire may worsen chip shortage

probably wont... this is almost like a headline with a question mark at the end... smh, not going to read the article when the title makes no sense.

thatfatboyon Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

I think that the removal of the plus operator had a much greater negative effect on Google.

thatfatboyon Can Reddit Survive Its IPO?

apparently it can according to the latest decisions from it's leadership (they still have momentum)... just waiting for an alternative that picks up.

thatfatboyon Ask HN: I firmly believe that AI is the next big wave of tech, where do I start?

Do you believe LLMs are AI? I don't. It's just a very simple algo... not saying that they aren't great though.

thatfatboyon Satoshi's Genius: Unexpected Ways in Which BTC Dodged Some Cryptographic Bullets

Internet, Cryptocurrencies, and LLMs.... what a great combo.

thatfatboyon Please make your table headings sticky

> Just install a browser plugin that allows you to load a custom stylesheet on every page.

why have everyone do extra work when one person could do it for everyone else in about the same amount of time that it would take one client to do?

thatfatboyon Mint.com Is Shutting for Good

credit karma used to be good like most other services that are popular... I think that they were some of the first ones to give you your credit rating for free and tell you why it moved, etc...

thatfatboyon Subscene.com Is Shutting Down

Maybe Netflix should pay them to be able to stay in business since Netflix like to pirate sub-titles (https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-caught-using-pirated-subtit...)

thatfatboyon Scuttlebutt social network: a decentralised platform

the latest versions of the software are somewhat old

thatfatboyon I Spent a Week with Gemini Pro 1.5–It's Fantastic

> GPT-4 is already less than $1 / day and that’s only going to go down.

but only the Government has access to it uncensored.

thatfatboyon Probably there will be AGI soon – any year now

You sound about as sure as Musk with his "self-driving" cars...

thatfatboyon After 14 years in the industry, I still find programming difficult

everyone find it difficult whether they know it or not because there are no bug-free software yet.